[R] RGtk2 on Debian Testing

[Jan van der Laan]

It has been a while back, but I believe I had to install libgtk2.0-dev  
(that was on Ubuntu)

You could also try to install the r-cran-rgtk2 debian-package using  
dpkg, aptitude, or whatever you use as package manager. This makes  
rgtk available for all users.

HTH,
Jan



Quoting Lorenzo Isella <lorenzo.isella at gmail.com>:

> Dear All,
> I am running Debian testing on my system for the amd64 architecture,
> When trying to install the RGtk package I get this error
>
>
>> install.packages('RGtk2')
> Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> trying URL
> 'http://rm.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/CRAN/src/contrib/RGtk2_2.20.8.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2637806 bytes (2.5 Mb)
> opened URL
> ==================================================
> downloaded 2.5 Mb
>
> * installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ ...
> checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
> checking for INTROSPECTION... no
> checking for GTK... no
> configure: error: GTK version 2.8.0 required
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RGtk2’
> * removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RGtk2’
>
> The downloaded packages are in
> 	‘/tmp/RtmpMTHLGF/downloaded_packages’
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("RGtk2") :
>   installation of package 'RGtk2' had non-zero exit status
>
> Does anyone know why there is a mismatch between my GTK and the one
> required by R?
> Should I enable some particular R repositories (I know that the
> previous Debian testing was released a few days ago, but I do not know
> if this is relevant).
> Any suggestion is welcome.
> Cheers
>
> Lorenzo
>
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